Brain and Learning Science for Educators in Autism

In recent years there has been a national movement toward integrating information from neuroscience into teacher training. The notion here is that teachers have the noble task of educating minds, and the mind is the brain at work. Therefore, it may benefit teachers to improve their understanding of how the brain works and learns to best meet the demands of their task. Nowhere is this logic more evident than in the teaching of children with neurodevelopmental disorders. Indeed, the results of one recent study at UC Davis indicated that teacher training in autism found information about research and theory on brain model of neurocognitive models of autism to be useful and motivating in their work. Accordingly this volume will provide chapters specific to brain development and the cognitive neuroscience of learning in autism. Coverage will include: